From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dancol@dancol.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:00:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv393yjx0h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831ujihdf8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:31:07 +0300")
>> > - (w32 (eq system-type 'windows-nt))
>> > + (nt (eq system-type 'windows-nt))
>> I do see that we now have a problem where w32 can refer either to "using
>> the w32 API for things like process and file system operations" and
>> "using the w32 GUI".
> It's just a local variable, so I really don't see the problem with it.
Yes, this particular use case is of no importance, but I meant to discuss
the general issue.
>> But "nt" doesn't sound too good for the first.
>> Maybe "w32os"?
> How about "windows" or "ms-windows"? w32os is misleading, or will be,
> once Emacs could be built as a 64-bit process.
I doubt we're going to rename all the w32-foo functions and variables,
so for better or worse, "w32" is most likely the official name we will
use even when building against the w64 API.
Just like we use "ns" for GNUstep and Mac OS X.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-07 8:19 [PATCH 0/9] Support Win32 GUI in Cygwin Emacs Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 9/9] Detect window-system from display name Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 17:09 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 20:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 20:19 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 22:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-08-07 22:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 23:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-08-07 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 20:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-08 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 7/9] Add alt_display to emacsclient for w32, ns Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 2/9] Refactor window-system configuration Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 17:31 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 6/9] Rename `w32' local to `nt' for clarity Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 10:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-08-07 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 16:40 ` Drew Adams
2012-08-07 17:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-08-08 2:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 5/9] Prevent crash if w32 used before it's initialized Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 17:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 8/9] Generalize fork+exec logic, add DAEMON_MUST_EXEC Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 4/9] Fix emacsclient to work with cygw32 Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 20:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-08 2:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 3/9] Implement cygw32 Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 20:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-08 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 8:19 ` [PATCH 1/9] Under Remote Desktop, NUMCOLORS is unreliable; workaround Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 17:22 ` [PATCH 0/9] Support Win32 GUI in Cygwin Emacs Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 17:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-07 20:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-07 20:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-08-08 2:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-08 2:33 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-08-08 3:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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